Interested in food and its link with environmental health, community health, and human health? Check out this newly-launched Study Away program on Lopez Island, WA that’s accepting applications now for Early Fall Start 2024! 

From the 18th century through today, Paris has been at the center of European and global re-visioning of nature and of our human relations with it. Scientific, intellectual and political revolutions that began in the later 18th century gave rise to intense debates about both the “nature” of nature and about human beings’ historical and biological place within it. 

The Living Breath (LB) of wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ Committee is seeking three (3) graduate or undergraduate applicants for a UW Student Study Abroad Program to Aotearoa, New Zealand (NZ). This program is offered through the UW Department of American Indian Studies and the UW Student Study Abroad Student Tour Program. 

Article Contributor: Ian Oates, Program Coordinator, Taiwan Studies
The second iteration of the UW Taiwan Studies Program and UW Program on the Environment summer study abroad course, Exploring Environmental and Social Resilience, concluded two weeks ago. 

In the final week of Program on the Environment’s Taiwan study Abroad Program, we went to Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan, to explore topics of eco-tourism and indigenous communities. We were greeted by our partners in the Geography Department of National Kaohsiung Normal University. 

UW TSP and UW Program on the Environment Professor Yen-Chu Weng‘s study abroad program just completed its second week!  The theme of Week 2 was Food and Agriculture.

“We started off the week with Professor Po-Yi Hung’s insightful lecture on Food and Society Issues in Taiwan. 

UW PoE faculty member Dr. Yen-Chu Weng and her colleague Po-Yi Hung, a faculty member in the Department of Geography at National Taiwan University, co-teach an exploration of environmental and social resilience in Taiwan this summer 2023 on UW’s Study Abroad Program on the Environment Taiwan: Exploring Environmental and Social Resilience.